In this week’s column I wrote that, in the total absence of accountability on Cordish’s Sports & Social Club project at Fourth Street Live, city government should consider adding a provision to contracts using taxpayer funds that would allow for a full auditing of subsequent spending.

Huzzah!: Next week, Democrat Jim King and Republican Kelly Downard will introduce an ordinance requiring contractual clauses that would allow the city to audit spending of taxpayer money on development and other projects. No word on whether the Mayor’s Office will support it; spokesman Chad Carlton said he hadn’t seen a draft of the ordinance yet.

We’ll be following this one.